OU Astrophysicist Predicts Double White Dwarf Binaries Will Merge (IMAGE)

University of Oklahoma

OU Astrophysicist Predicts Double White Dwarf Binaries Will Merge

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Mukremin Kilic, OU astrophysicist, and team have discovered two detached, eclipsing double white dwarf binaries with orbital periods of 40 and 46 minutes, respectively. Only a handful of white dwarf binaries are know with orbital periods less than one hour in our galaxy and most were discovered by Kilic and colleagues.

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University of Oklahoma

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